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When it comes to choosing colleges, Olympic swimmers are notorious for their poor discretion. Autumn after autumn foolhardy mermen wander blindly down no New Haven, join the Eli Swimming Team, and live for four years deluded into thinking they are getting the best coaching-education combination possible...
...smooth going all last year for the Crimson mermen except for Yale's decisive triumph in the grand finale of the unbeaten season. The school from New Haven, no pun intended, paddled past Ulen's proteges 62 to 13. Only close meet of the season came when Dartmouth succumbed 43 to 32 as a result of a last minute Crimson triumph in the relay. Princeton was building a new pool last year and had no team. In 1946, however, the Nassau relay squad placed in the Eastern Intercollegiates, and they may easily be a surprise threat in the East this...
Yale's perennial swimming supremacy held away over the Crimson mermen, who salvaged only one first place in going down to a 48 to 27 defeat. The 400-yard freestyle relay quartet--Bob Tolf, Paul Tobias, Jim Dawson, and Morton Hull--picked up the losers' only five-pointer as they beat the Eli four in 3:58.6 minutes...
Meanwhile, in the realm of swimming, the Blue and Crimson mermen are in a first place deadlock, both being undefeated. Following their meet in the New Haven pool tomorrow, each team will send its members to the Blockhouse on March 19-20 for the individual swimming championships...
...Kirkland's Deacons nipped the Dudley hockey squad 2 to 1. And in the Blockhouse pool, Winthrop's swimming squad drowned Dunster, while Leverett's mermen ducked Adams, and Dudley defaulted. Lowell outsplashed both Kirkland and Eliot in the other triangular meet...